Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.